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Former President of Society of China University Journals and STM Publishing Consultant

Dr. Shuai is currently an independent consultant based in Beijing. His previous career endeavors include Associate Chief Editor of Tsinghua University Press (TUP), Director of TUP’s Journal Publishing Center, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), and the Director of Journal Publishing Department of Beijing Forestry University. Further, Shuai has also worked with societies and government organizations for many years as the President of Society of China University Journals, Vice President of China Periodical Association, Member of CAST’s Committee for Academic Exchanges, and Member of the Ministry of Education’s S&T Committee.

Associate Editor for American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Dr. Jun Sun is a tenured Professor and Associate Head of Department of Medicine, the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She is an elected Fellow for the American Physiological Society (APS) and American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Fellow. She chairs the national Task Force Committee on Omics Pathobiology in Long COVID and writing white papers on COVID and microbiome research. Dr. Sun has published over 210 scientific articles in leading journals such as Gastroenterology, Gut, Cell Steam Cell, Nature Genetics, Gut Microbes, JBC, and AJP-GI. She is the leading editor of 6 books on microbiome and disease, including two American Physiological Society (APS) e-books (Nature/Spring) titled “Mechanisms underlying host-microbiome interactions in pathophysiology of human diseases” and “Inflammation, infection, and microbiome in cancers: evidence, mechanisms, and implications”. She serves on the editorial board of more than 10 peer-reviewed journals, including a Deputy Editor for American Journal of Physiology-GIL, an Associate Editor for Gut Microbes, IBD Journal, and Genes & Diseases.

Dr. Wei Kong

Chair & Professor, Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Peking University Health Science Center

Dr. Wei Kong acquired her MD and PhD degree in Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China and received her postdoctoral training in University of Washington, Seattle and New York University, NYC in US. After she came back to China and set up her own lab, her research interest has been focused on the underlying mechanism of vascular cell differentiation/transdifferentiation and how the extracellular matrix microenvironment affects vascular homeostasis and pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases including atherosclerosis, post injury restenosis, vascular calcification and aortic aneurysm. She has published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers in Circulation, Blood, Circ Res, Nat Commun, et al and severed as associate editor of AJP-Cell Physiology and editorial board member of Circ Res, Matrix Biology et al. She was awarded China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (2012) and Scholars of the Yangtze river (2017), the Bill Gates foundation innovation challenge - young scientist (2016). She is also the principle scientist of National Natural Science Fund for Innovative Research Groups Science Foundation (2019).